In a remote stretch of Egyptian desert, a set of huge carved symbols has revived one of humanity’s oldest questions: were our ancestors trying to speak to the cosmos. The newly highlighted tableau, ...

For Connor Parente’s debut album, the wide variety of his influences are expressed somewhere throughout the record. “So no ...

Carved into rock near the village of El-Khawy in southern Egypt, a massive line of ancient hieroglyphs has just been brought ...

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With the new year, goal-setting evolves into creating vision boards, a ritual combining images and words to represent aspirations. Here's everything to know.

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

Archaeologists have discovered an oversized inscription that offers a new glimpse into the early development of the Egyptian writing system. A team led by Yale University Egyptologist John Darnell ...

As crazy as it sounds, it’s now well attested that the letter “A” started out its evolution as the Egyptian hieroglyph for an ox. But its truly mind-blowing transformation came when turquoise miners ...

Over 150 years ago, archaeologists in Egypt discovered an ancient stone tablet called the Canopus Decree. Written in three different languages — Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Greek — it ...

Most days, the news is like slicing a soccer-ball-sized onion. The headlines will make your eyes water with frustration, anger or fear — mass murders, disappearing jobs, tariffs on a yo-yo string ...